Compared

nokko vs Toggl Track, for billing the hours.

Toggl Track is a time tracker with reports and invoicing in Toggl's cloud, and a desktop app that needs a Toggl account. nokko's timer writes the session into the task's own Markdown file on your Mac, and the projects, the timeline and the invoice are in the same app, with no account at all.

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If you need team reports and approvals across many people, keep Toggl.

Toggl Track is good at what it does: a fast timer everywhere, reports across a whole team, approvals, and integrations with the project tools a company already uses. nokko does not do team-wide time reporting with approvals, and it has no integrations; it is one app for a few people whose hours become their own invoices.

If the hours should live next to the task, and the invoice next to the hours.

In nokko a timer is started on a task, from the Mac, the menu bar, a widget or the iPhone's Lock Screen, and stopping it writes a ⏱ line under that task in the project's file. The Time view sums the sessions by client, project and day; the Clients view shows what is not yet invoiced; and the invoice is drafted from those hours with rates, VAT and a PDF, as another file you own.

There is no Toggl workspace to keep in step with the project tool, because the project tool is the same app. And there is nothing to log in to: the hours are in files on your disk, readable in any editor, for as long as you keep them.

The Time view: 34h30m logged across October, grouped by client — Halden Coffee 13h10m, Meridian Health 9h10m, Lantern Books 5h, and 7h10m against no client at all. — The Time view: a month's sessions summed per client and project, against each project's estimate.

No automatic tracking, no Toggl import, no integrations.

nokko does not watch which apps you use; its timer is one you start. It does not import Toggl's history, so the timer starts fresh and old reports stay in Toggl. And it does not plug into other tools: its interoperability is the file format, which Obsidian and any text editor read.

Capability by capability.

Stated as capabilities, not prices. Toggl's plans are on Toggl's page; this says only what each tool does and where the hours end up.

nokko compared with Toggl Track
Capability	nokko	Toggl Track
Free to use	Read everything, forever	Free plan, limited
One-time purchase available	Yes	No
Works with no account	Yes	No
Hours kept as files on your disk	Yes	No
Timer on the Mac, in the menu bar	Yes	Yes
Timer on the iPhone	Yes, on the Lock Screen	Yes
Idle time handled	Asked about, never logged quietly	Yes
Pomodoro	Yes	Yes
Reports by client and project	Yes	Yes
Projects, boards, calendar, Gantt in the same app	Yes	Separate product
Invoices from tracked hours	Drafted as a file, printed to PDF	In their cloud
Team-wide reports and approvals	No	Yes
Integrations with other tools	The file format	Yes
Import from the other	No	No

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Toggl keeps the hours in Toggl's cloud and invoices from there; nokko keeps them in the task's own file on your Mac and drafts the invoice beside it.

The things people ask.

Is nokko a Toggl alternative?

For a freelancer or a small studio billing its own hours, yes: nokko has a timer on the Mac and the iPhone, a timesheet and reports by client, and it drafts invoices from the hours, all kept as files on your disk with no account. For team-wide time reporting with approvals, Toggl Track is the better fit.

Can I import my Toggl history?

No. nokko imports tasks from ClickUp and Todoist exports and from pasted lists, but not time entries from Toggl. The timer starts fresh in nokko; your old reports stay in Toggl, where you can export them.

Does nokko have a menu bar timer like Toggl?

Yes. The running timer sits in the menu bar and in a desktop widget, and on the iPhone it keeps counting on the Lock Screen. Stopping it writes the session as a line under the task in the project's Markdown file; nothing is sent anywhere.

Can nokko invoice from tracked hours?

Yes. Pick a client and a period and the invoice is drafted from the logged sessions, with rates from the client record, VAT, sequential numbering and your own stationery, printed to PDF in English, Lithuanian, German, French or Spanish. Totals recompute on every read.

Everything else is on the features page and under pricing.

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